Rethink Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on transportation, logistics, and supply chains. Based in Munich, we invest in tech-enabled startups across Europe that rethink how people and goods move. Our firm is backed by leading institutional investors and industry leaders, including ZF, Hellmann, KION Group, and HAVI.
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Meet Matthias Schanze at ChangeNOW this week and have a chat about how to take the carbon out of transport in Europe! https://lnkd.in/dfu9ZdBY
You are not sure SUSTAINABILITY is still on the agenda? Wondering what happend to IMPACT? If you doubt CHANGE, come to Paris! Doubters, believers, investors, founders: meet me at #ChangeNow this week!
Our portfolio company Nautica Technologies was on stage at START Summit for the panel “Deeptech in the Wild”, where Nautica’s Co-Founder & CEO Cédric Portmann shared his perspective on building deeptech and robotics companies, alongside Seoho Jung (Chiral) and Dr. Lena-Marie Pätzmann (Sitegeist): 1. Build in the real world, not just in the lab. You learn much more from testing with real customers than from perfecting things in isolation. Fast iteration and being willing to challenge your own assumptions is what turns prototypes into real products. 2. The early team defines everything. A company is a bit like bread dough - if the starter dough is bad, the whole bread will be bad. The mindset, technical depth and ambition of the first team members shape the entire company that follows. 3. Price is defined by value, not by cost. One of the worst pieces of advice is to take your costs and just add a margin. The better approach is to first understand the value you create for customers and price based on that. Great panel and great event overall.
We’re excited to welcome Good2Know to the Rethink Ventures portfolio, a company bringing much-needed transparency to the used car market. 🚙🔍 As Good2Know launches its B2B platform today, the team is bringing a new level of clarity to vehicle trading. Their AI-powered product combines, validates and structures vehicle lifecycle data from hundreds of reliable sources into a clear, actionable view. The result: faster decisions, lower risk and more trust for dealers, manufacturers, insurers and marketplaces. By turning fragmented information into verified intelligence, Good2Know is building the infrastructure for a more transparent automotive market. We’re proud to support Tomi Keinänen, Jarmo Paabo, Henri Vähäkainu and the whole Good2Know team as they scale across Europe. 🇪🇺 Check it out here: https://www.good2know.co/
Our General Partner Matthias Schanze will be speaking at the LogisticsTech Talks in Hamburg on April 14, together with Dominik Fürste from our portfolio company Rail-Flow and Erik Muttersbach from Zauber. He will share insights into our investment theses and why at Rethink Ventures we invest a €50M fund exclusively in the future of transport and logistics. He will talk about what we are seeing across 21 investments in 10 countries and what the industry should be paying attention to next. April 14, 2026 | 7:00 PM Digital Hub Logistics & Commerce, Hamburg Free entry, including drinks and food Registration: https://lnkd.in/eUm4NABf
Full boots on the ground at LogiMAT-Messe tomorrow in Stuttgart! We’ll all be in Stuttgart during the day, so reach out if you want to meet. If you’d like to join our co-hosted dinner with IRIS and Mätch VC in the evening, just message one of us. Jens-Philipp Klein Matthias Schanze Mark Werner Michael Buchinger
Great discussion with our GP Matthias Schanze at the Plug and Play Tech Center Germany Summit last week on whether we’re seeing real, scalable use cases or just another hype cycle. In mobility and logistics, the gap between promising pilots and real-world deployment is where most AI outcomes will be decided.
Thrilled to see our portfolio company Logistikbude reach this important milestone! 🎉 We had the privilege of leading their Seed round — and today, we couldn't be prouder to watch the team raised a €5M+ Series A, led by Capnamic. Why did we invest early? Because 10 billion load carriers worldwide are still managed manually — and the team led by Dr. Philipp Hüning & Co. is tackling this head-on. Logistikbude's LCMS (Load Carrier Management System) creates an entirely new category — built with genuine depth and genuine domain expertise, rooted in Fraunhofer IML research. Congratulations to the whole Logistikbude team - the journey is just getting started! 🚀 XPRESS Ventures TT49 / FTTF Capnamic OMA Business Angels better ventures
Heading to St. Gallen next week. Our General Partner Matthias Schanze will be at the START Summit 2026 on March 19–20. If you're building in mobility, logistics, industrial tech or AI infrastructure and would like to connect, feel free to reach out and set up a meeting. Looking forward to great conversations!
Congratulations to onboarding one of the big players in the aviation industry that helps unlock the US market for Skypuzzler.
United Airlines Ventures Invests in Skypuzzler to Advance the Future of Airspace Management! The investment underscores Skypuzzler’s position at the forefront of enabling the safe and scalable integration of drones, advanced air mobility, and space operations into increasingly complex airspace environments. In July 2025, Skypuzzler closed a seed funding round with the EIC - European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund) and Rethink Ventures, a leading European venture capital firm specialising in mobility and logistics tech. With the addition of United Airlines Ventures, Skypuzzler is further strengthening its strategic relationships with global industry leaders and investors. These investments enable Skypuzzler to accelerate the deployment of its platform across aviation, drone, and space sectors, delivering a unified digital foundation for managing the complex airspace environments. Read the whole press release here: https://lnkd.in/evxcB4Gj #UnitedAirlinesVentures #AirspaceManagement #Investment
eMabler, Open EV Charging Platform shows what strong customer collaboration in EV charging looks like. Flexible, modular, and seamlessly executed even in complex, large-scale migrations.
Running 8,000 EV charging sessions a day leaves no room for instability. That's the reality ABC operates in. 🔌 380+ sites, 2,700+ chargers, and millions of drivers who trust them every year across Finland. When they were looking for a new EV charging platform, a fixed, all-in-one solution wasn't going to cut it. Their retail network sits inside a wider operation with its own systems, pricing logic, and customer touchpoints. What ABC needed was a platform that fit right in but that could be also shaped over time as the business and the industry evolved. That's why modularity mattered. 🔧 Not as a buzzword, but as a practical requirement: adopt what fits, leave out what doesn't, and adjust as things change. ⚡️ The result: a migration their Tech PO called the smoothest he'd ever been through, and a charging network ABC's team feels fully in control of. Don't miss the full succes story! Link in the comments 👇